Installing nodejs on other operating system

Installing the node amber package

Once nodejs and npm are installed, evaluate:

npm install-g amber-cli

2. The bower component

The following section explains how to manually setup Amber using Bower. The amber init command provided by the npm package automates it. Unless you want to (a) understand how it works or (b) setup Amber differently, you can refer to the getting started page.

The npm package doesn’t provide the JavaScript files required to load
Amber in a page. This is instead provided by the bower package.

Bower is a package manager for the web. It makes it
easy to manage dependencies in your application including
Amber. Unlike npm, Bower components are meant to be used inside the
web browser.

If not already present, Bower is installed using npm: npm install -g bower

In the root directory of the project,
Amber bower component can be installed either by

bower install amber --save

or by adding a bower.json file like the following:

{"name":"example-project","dependencies":{"amber":"~0.12.4"}}

and evaluating

bower install

In both cases, Amber will be installed in a directory named bower_components.